Klaus Pohl - Requirements Engineering Fundamentals: A Study Guide for the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Exam - Foundation Level - IREB compliant

Klaus Pohl holds a full professorship for Software Systems Engineering at the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He was the scientific funding director of Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. Currently he is the acting director of palunoThe Ruhr Institute for Software Technologyat the University of Duisburg-Essen. He received his Ph.D. and his habilitation in computer science from RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Klaus is (co-)author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and several text books. He served as Program and General Chair for many international and national conferences including the 35th ACM/IEEE Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013). As consultant, assessor, and expert he supports small and multi-national companies, research institutes, and public funded research programs. Klaus is co-founder of the IREB e.V. (International Requirements Engineering Board). You can find more information on https://sse.uni-due.de .

Chris RuppSOPHIST-in-chief (formally: founder and executive partner of the SOPHIST GmbH), chief consultant, coach and trainer. Looking back over 25 years of professional experience, a lot has come up: a company... 6 books... 55 employees... countless articles and presentations... and a whole lot of experience. My passion for project consultation might account for the fact that, until now, I do not only manage, but I am still directly involved in projects and close to customers. What drives me is the vision to implement good ideas so that developers, contractual partners and usersboth direct and indirectface an intelligent, sophisticated and beneficial product. In doing so, I work with a range of methods and approaches in agile and non-agile environments.

In order to standardize qualification for requirements engineers / business analysts, I founded the IREB e.V. (International Requirements Engineering Board). You can find further information on www.sophist.de .

Klaus Pohl Chris Rupp

A Study Guide for the Certified Professional
for Requirements Engineering Exam

Foundation Level IREB compliant

2nd Edition

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Chris Rupp ()

Translated from German by Thorsten Weyer, Bastian Tenbergen, and Marta Tayeh.
Editor: Michael Barabas
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ISBN 978-1-937538-77-4

2nd Edition 2015
2015 by Klaus Pohl and Chris Rupp

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pohl, Klaus.

Requirements engineering fundamentals : a study guide for the certified professional for requirements engineering exam, foundation level, IREB compliant / Klaus Pohl, Chris Rupp. -- 2nd edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-937538-77-4 (softcover : alk. paper)

1. Software engineering--Examinations--Study guides. 2. System design--Examinations--Study guides. 3. Requirements engineering--Examinations--Study guides. 4. Electronic data processing documentation--Examinations--Study guides. I. Rupp, Chris. II. Title.

QA76.758.P6413 2015

005.1076--dc23

2015009245

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Dear reader,

With Requirements Engineering Fundamentals, you are holding the official text book of the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) Foundation Level certification in your hands.

The 2nd edition of this book is aligned with the curriculum (version 2.2) of the International Requirements Engineering Board e.V. (IREB) and the IREB glossary. In addition, some minor defects of the 1st edition have been corrected. A short introduction to the IREB and the certification process can be found in the previous section The Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) Exam.

The aim of this book is to aid you in your preparation for the certification examination of the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering. The book is suited for your individual preparation for the examination as well as for companion literature to training courses offered by training providers.

In addition to the book, you should consider the information about the preparation for the certification examination published on the IREB website ( http://www.ireb.org/en ). That additional information reflects updates of the curriculum (after version 2.2) and potentially amends this book with respect to some areas of interest. Errata to this book are published on the IREB website.

Our decision to author this book collaboratively was not unjustified. The book at hand is meant to integrate long-lasting practical experiences with educational and research knowledge concerning the topic of requirements engineering, in particular for the Foundation Level of the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering. As a consequence, this book is based on the two best-selling books in the German language about requirements engineering by the two main authors:

Klaus Pohl: Requirements Engineering Grundlagen, Prinzipien, Techniken. Published at dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg, 2008. This book was written from a perspective of research and education and offers a structured discussion of the fundamentals, principles, and techniques of requirements engineering. (Also available in English: Requirements Engineering Fundamentals, Principles, and Techniques. Springer, New York, 2010)

Chris Rupp: Requirements-Engineering und -Management Aus der Praxis von klassisch bis agil. Published at Hanser Fachbuchverlag, Munich, 2014. This book contains application-oriented knowledge about requirements engineering, which supports the requirements engineer in his or her daily practice. (Individual chapters also available in English on the SOPHIST website: http://www.sophist.de )

We have chosen not to reference the two books listed above in the individual chapters of this book. You can find detailed additional information on the topics of this book in both of the books mentioned above.